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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Earth
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Must
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Atheism
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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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